The Untouchables (TV Series) The Maggie Storm Story (1962) User Reviews

The lady caught in the middle...

[planktonrules · 8/10 · 16 March 2016]

Maggie Storm (Patricia Neal) is a middle-aged lounge singer at the 808 Club. However, she has two secrets. First, her place of business is where a lot of mobsters hang out and make deals...all sorts of sordid deals. Second, while she always talks about her boss, who never seems to be there, she actually owns the club. So why this ruse? Well, she's defenseless and has created a tough-guy boss to keep jerks at bay. But there's on jerk who cannot be dissuaded by anything, Vince Shirer (Vic Morrow). He works for Murder, Inc. and this organization of hired killers wants her club and they aren't going to back down for anyone.

Seeing Vic Morrow is one of best reasons to see this episode. Like the best villains on this show, he's nasty, remorseless, blood- thirsty and not above slapping the crap out of a woman. And, Maggie does get the crap knocked out of her...which must have been pretty shocking to audiences at the time. Overall, well worth seeing and tough...very tough.

It's all deception

[bkoganbing · 5/10 · 18 December 2013]

Dying junkie Herman Rudin with a couple Untouchable bullets in him says that he got his fix at a certain nightclub where Patricia Neal is the Texas Guinan like host. She looks innocent enough but that's all deception.

Her real problem isn't Eliot Ness and The Untouchables. It is rather an attempt by the famous founder of Brooklyn's Murder Incorporated Louis 'Lepke' Burkhalter to take over her club and the rackets that are run from it.

Patricia Neal is fine as a woman losing control to alcohol among other things. Now that it's legal again she's having a great old time. She's not clever enough to evade Burkhalter's trigger man Vic Morrow who before he got the Combat series played all kinds of hoods and punks starting from The Blackboard Jungle.

Not one of the better shows, but Neal and Morrow are outstanding.

Poor episode

[thompsonm-05031 · 5/10 · 31 October 2019]

In most untouchables episodes we are watching the mob terrorize innocent people while The untouchables try to gather enough evidence to shut them down. Even in those episodes where the only people we see are gangsters in The untouchables, at least the gangsters are colorful and entertaining enough to carry the show.

This episode has no sympathetic characters at all. Patricia Neal plays a nightclub owner involved in selling any and all things illegal. we are apparently supposed to feel sorry for her when the mob moves in and takes over. Her incessant whining and crying over the matter are just irritating and annoying. What exactly did she expect in the first place?

Vic Morrow plays a mob hatchet man who is trying so hard to act tough he actually comes off silly. The untouchables have nothing to do in this episode besides continuously harassed people to confess and rat out their friends. We see no investigations, no raids, no fights, nothing except hanging around the fringes asking people to turn themselves in. This episode is awful.